Google Chrome Review

Today Google launched a new web browser, Chrome. I’ve been using it for half an hour.

What’s really got me excited is my main using for need for Firefox specifically is bookmark organization.

It lets me keep a toolbar of bookmarks in folders and subfolders for easy organization and productivity.

Well Google Chrome, which I’m using now, immediately installed all my hundreds of folders, subfolders, bookmarks, and placed it in its own toolbar. It knew how to do this!

Internet Explorer can’t do it. Frankly, this amazed me.

So when you’re reading this review of Google Chrome, consider this… it’s beautiful. The page rendering I’ve seen has been pixel perfect. Granted, it’s only been 32 minutes, but still. Not only that, but it isolates the processes of each tab so one tab crashing doesn’t crash the whole browser. This is a huge plus.

It is simple and clean looking. It allows you to put web applications on your desktop or quick launch bar as a shortcut, and when you click it the “cloud computing” application launches without the Google UI so it looks exactly like a native application (program) on your computer, but you’re running it on the web: the future of computing.

And no software then needs to be installed on your computer or a local server. It’s astonishing. Get it here: google.com/chrome

Recommended? Yes!

UPDATE 17 minutes later: No way! When you click the + sign for a new tab, it Chrome you a panel of 9 thumbnails you recently viewed for you to choose from, and a list of recent bookmarks on the right. Below that is a list of recently closed tabs. Below the thumbnails is a link to get your full history with a description of each page and the time visited in reverse chronological order.

It’s convenient and a visual real time saver.

4 Comments – add your comment!

The browser is a good concept, but a little shaky. Some of the fonts rendered are not clear, making it unusable.

The rest of the sites which load fine look good. The browser seems fast, and it a sure firefox killer.
http://www.techielife.com/google-chrome-initial-review-and-comments/browsers/aditya/2008-09-02/

Comment by Aditya
1:03 PM Victoria, Canada time on Tue. Sep 2nd, ’08
Yes, it may be a bit shaky, but for day 1, sweet.

Comment by Christoph Dollis
1:17 PM Victoria, Canada time on Tue. Sep 2nd, ’08
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1:22 PM Victoria, Canada time on Tue. Sep 2nd, ’08
Thanks to Google for creating a browser. Competition is great for driving innovation. Thank you for this review.

For state of the art browser innovation, I’ve long used Opera. They had tabbed browsing 8 years ago. That 9 panel thumbnail view that wowed you? Opera calls it SpeedDial. Chances are good that the browser innovation that Firefox might copy next year and IE will finally get in 5 will be in the next release of Opera.

Comment by rslarkin
2:18 PM Victoria, Canada time on Tue. Sep 2nd, ’08